William Tracy wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering if maybe the best way to achieve [flexibility/extensibility]
> is not through SDL, but by adding a plugin architecture to POV. The plugins
> would presumably be written in C++; they would be fast and flexible, and
> there would be no "polluting" of the SDL. You could modify and redistribute
> plugins without having to build custom versions of POV.

I like this idea.

> 
> The big downsides that I see are that the plugins would have to be
> recompiled for each architecture, and the possibility of malicious
> plugins.

Not so much of a downside. If functionality will be taken out of the 
main source code and transferred to extensions as Warp suggests, then a 
set of official plugins would likely be distributed, compiled, with the 
official POV binaries.

  -Shay

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